Well I'm facing a new challenge in the kitchen.  A little over a month ago our youngest (17 months old)  started breaking out in a rash.  I was pretty sure it was an allergy to something.  Knowing that she can't drink milk, it makes her very sick.  I started removing other dairy products from her diet.  She had always been ok on yogurts and cheese.  It didn't seem to help much...I remembered back to shortly after she started on solid foods she had her first yeast rash out break.  Since we eat a lot of wheat products, breads, pastas etc. I thought there might be a connection there.  So I removed all wheat from her diet.  The rash started going a way!  In a few days it was all cleared up.  Then this past weekend we were out and stopped for something to eat for supper.  Potato wedges and hotdogs.  She just had the hotdog with out the bun but there must have been wheat flour or MSG in the hot dogs and I'm pretty sure there was a bit of flour in the potato seasoning also.  Needless to say the next morning she had broken out again.  The last 2 1/2 days of no wheat have the rash almost gone again.

So this pretty much eliminates eating out! lol  I'm also having to find a lot of alternatives for our meals. 

We eat bread with each meal and eat a lot of pastas. 

I'm trying to find non wheat pasta the local stores don't have any.  So tomorrow dh is taking me to a health food store that is out of the way for us.  If they have rice pasta or something similar I'll try that.

 

I just baked my first batch of gluten free french bread.  It smells good!  I hope it will be lol.  The recipe was getting great reviews.  If it works out I'll share a link.

One thing I'll say is that gluten bread is made as more of a batter like a quick bread.  If you try to make it kneadable then it gets tough.  Or so I've been told.  The bread recipe I just tried says to spoon the batter out on a cookie sheet or into a french bread pan.  I think I'll HAVE to find a french bread pan somewhere!!  Instead of rising UP it rose OUT.  So it wont be any good for sandwiches etc.  If it tastes good then maybe latter I'll grind more rice flour and try it in a cake pan.  That might help a little.

 

If anyone else is cooking wheat free and has ideas and recipes to share I'd appreciate it!